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Has anyone seen performance measurements for hardware lock elision? What's the performance gain/loss in the uncontended case? How costly is an aborted transaction?

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The folks at Sisoft have written up about the changes and included some examples of the performance difference it can make:

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?d=qa&f=ben_mem_hle

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